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  <h1 class="refname">MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</h1>
  <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo &gt;=0.9.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</span> &mdash; <span class="dc-title">Returns this file&#039;s contents as a string of bytes</span></p>

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  <h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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   <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</strong></span>(): <span class="type">string</span></div>

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   Warning: this will load the file into memory.  If the file is bigger than
   your memory, this will cause problems!
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  <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
  <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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   Returns a string of the bytes in the file.
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   <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoGridFSFile::getBytes()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br /><br />$images&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">my_db</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">getGridFS</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'images'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$image&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$images</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">findOne</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'jwage.png'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Content-type:&nbsp;image/png;'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$image</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">getBytes</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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